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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D1920/2/2/52/9
TitleMedical Appeal Tribunal case file for Charles Beresford, aged 56, Coal miner at Boythorpe, relating to an Industrial Accident
Date1956
DescriptionDate of birth: 13/01/1900
Marital status: Not given
Address: 18 Holland Road, Old Whittington
Type of injury: Injury - detached retina
Description of accident: Blow in eye from spanner
Further information: I am unable to follow my usual employment as an underground worker, owing to continual headaches […] I cannot follow my usual routine such as shoe repairing, joinering not being able to see nail heads, I cannot read without glasses'.
Extent1 file
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
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Archive CreatorNational Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Derbyshire Area
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